Tonight we aren’t going to talk about tech. Instead we are going to talk about assassination of Charlie Kirk, a conservative political commentator who was shot dead while speaking at an event in Utah earlier today. He was shot once in the neck, taken to the hospital in critical condition and pronounced dead soon after. MAGA is up in arms and foaming at the mouth. Non-Fascists and Democrats are stumbling all over themselves to decry political violence in general and express their sympathies.
I’m going to take a different position today. Fuck Charlie. Fuck those who mourn him. “Why” I hear you ask. Glad you asked, let me explain. Start here:
“It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment”
-Charlie Kirk, April 2023
Well Charlie guess what? Today you are the sacrificial lamb. Today you get to die for the values you professed a deep unwavering belief in. But hey, don’t feel alone. Soon enough there will many among us who, whether we like it or not, will be following in your footsteps.
Why am I saying that? Well I’m saying that because for all intents and purposes, the civil war in this country that I have been predicting for years has already begun. It’s not quite so loud in terms of actual small arms fire and artillery. It’s not quite so obvious as nobody is bombing buildings and blowing up vehicles (yet). But make no mistake it is happening.
Every single day the fascist and authoritarian Trump administration is allowed to execute on Project 2025 is another day that historians will remember as part of this war. It is happening every single day in every single state of this nation. Our rights are being curtailed. Our freedoms are being hog-tied. Our ability to speak is being smothered by the threat of extra-judicial consequences. Want to know how I know about that last one? I’m posting this on my anonymous blog instead of my actual one. I fear the repercussions of my political speech and rightfully so.
This outcome has been easy to predict from the start of the rise of Trump, you had only to take off the rose tinted glasses and try to fully absorb the reality of what he is and what he is trying to do. Of course he couldn’t do it by himself, he needed an army of fools that would go along with it. Sadly he has found that army in the form of MAGA. He is now drafting members of MAGA into a more official army who answer only to him, more commonly known as ICE.
Every single day that RFK denies us access to medical care or Trump deploys ICE and the National Guard into yet another American city to curb stomp and curtail those he sees as his opponents, more shots are being fired in this war. Actual American citizens are literally being picked up by masked thugs (aka ICE) off the side of the road, tossed into unmarked vans and dumped into hastily thrown together concentration camps and then shipped off to whatever third world shithole Trump convinces to take them without even the slightest fucking semblance of due fucking process.
WE ARE IN A WAR. Your lack of awareness is not nearly as relevant as you wish it was because the world in fact does not revolve around you.
Wake the fuck up America. Waste your time mourning the death of a Fascist mouthpiece if you must, but don’t take your eyes off the ball. Trump and his army are going to come for each and every one of us regardless of how much or how little we mourn one of his more effective propaganda mouthpieces.
The shot fired in Utah today isn’t the start of the war, just a clarion call to the nation that we are currently embroiled in one. One which is escalating at a very rapid pace. Those of you who believe that we will be able to right the ship starting with the 2026 midterms have not been paying attention. They are literally redrawing districts all across America so as to deny the opposition the opportunity to claw back any semblance of power while solidifying the grasp they have on their own. They are literally attempting to federalize elections. They aren’t going to let you and I vote them out of power.
Even if that wasn’t the case, our primary opposition party lacks the conviction and the scruples to effectively hold anybody associated with Trump accountable much less roll back any of his power grabs. Don’t believe me? Take a long hard look at the Biden Administration. They had four years to hold Trump accountable and sat around and did almost nothing in that time period. They had four years to roll back Trumps power abuses and couldn’t even bring themselves to roll back his tariffs from term one. Even now they sit on their hands and piss and moan ineffectually while still refusing to pull out all the stops to bring his plans to a halt.
But hey maybe the courts will save us. Wrong. The Supreme Court is merely a shell of its former self. It has now taken to rubber stamping all Trump edicts despite the fact that these decisions obviously fly in the face of earlier precedents set by their own institution. The fascist (they are not conservative, so bugger off with that adjective) justices have obviously made a choice. They would rather maintain their position instead of try to preserve the constitution or even the credibility of their own goddamned institution.
What astounds me the most is how people still refuse to see it. We are already being murdered in this war - its just being fought in such a way so that a lot of the deaths are backdated. The worst part is that its not even a political war, its actually a class war. Trump and his billionaire friends have effectively banded together and they are purposefully and collectively pooling their resources to wage it upon the rest of us, MAGA included.
We are all victims. Except people like Charlie Kirk. He was a useful idiot with a big mouth and I’m not sorry to see him go. However don’t let his death be in vain. Wake up and smell the Napalm America before the flames engulf the rest of us, including you, as well.